Seba Calfuqueo
For her first major solo exhibition in an American museum, Mapuche artist Seba Calfuqueo creates works that challenge the rigid binaries of Western colonial modernity that have historically regulated bodies, identities, and territories.
Departing from the notion that not everything can be defined or contained, and grounded in her Indigenous Mapuche identity and cosmovision, Calfuqueo’s practice invites viewers to inhabit liquid states of being, where non-binary bodies, nature, language, and memory all flow and conflate.
Through video, performance, and sculpture, the interdisciplinary artist’s practice points to colonial and state-driven extractive systems in her native Chile which must find ways of exiting the mind and the body, asking viewers how we truly hold space for fluidity. In a world where living outside imposed boundaries can be a threat to life itself, Seba Calfuqueo envisions empowered ways of existing, healing, surviving, and becoming liquid.